NoHTML Tool Helps Prevent Malicious Email

Russ Cooper, operator of the NTBugTraq mailing list and surgeon general at TruSecure, released a new tool to prevent malicious email from transporting for viruses, Trojan horses, and worms. The new tool, NoHTML, is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002 only that converts HTML-based email messages to Rich Text Format (RTF) or plain text. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

According to Cooper, NoHTML works based on message selection within Outlook clients. When a user selects a message, the tool determines whether HTML is embedded in the message, and if so, the tool uses Outlook's built-in message format-changing functionality to convert the message to RTF or plain text format. NoHTML is a small .dll file (7906 bytes) that users can download for free from the NTBugTraq Web site.

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Alan Ralph (not verified)

on Dec 6, 2001

Just read the documentation for this add-in, and noticed that it is unable to do anything to the Preview Pane in Outlook - gee, thanks Microsoft. Other than that, sounds great. And not before time, either - shame it was left to someone from outside Microsoft to develop such a tool.